Amendments
Length of a senator's term
6 years
5
The first governing document at Plymouth Colony
The Mayflower Compact
The man who led the noble train of artillery
Henry Knox
Your unalienable rights
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
Name two amendments that address who can vote:
15, 19, 24, 26
One way to commit treason according to the constitution.
Levy war against the US, adhere to enemies, give aid or comfort to enemies.
The state that never made it to the Constitutional Convention
Rhode Island
Five items were taxed in the Townshend Acts
tea, paper, glass, paint lead
Anarchy
Which two amendments deal with alcohol
18, 21
Two of the three general provisions of article 6
The number of states that had to ratify the constitution.
9
Name 3 general forms of government
Monarchy, Oligarchy, Democracy, Republic, Anarchy
4 olds discussed in Red Scarf Girl
Habits, ideas, customs, culture
According to the 10th amendment, powers not delegated to the United States are reserved for the...
states
Name 3 positions the president can appoint:
ambassadors, public ministers, consuls, supreme court judges, all other officers of the United States not otherwise provided for in the constitution.
The form of government guaranteed to every state in the Union
republic
1783
Definition of a republic:
Name the amendments that deal with filling vacancies in the presidency
12th, 20th, 25th
Name 4 powers that congress has:
tax, spend, borrow, regulate commerce, rules for citizenship, coin money, declare war, call up militias, etc.
The English punishment for treason during the 1700s
To be hanged until unconscious, cut down and revived, disemboweled, beheaded, quartered, with your remnants scattered abroad so the offender would always be unnamed, unknown, unhonored.
He gave a speech that suggested America ought to be absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown
Richard Henry Lee of Virginia